Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 14th Jan 2008 14:41 UTC, submitted by superstoned
"I think it's really necessary to respond to some criticism seen on the reactions to the latest OSnews article. I won't go into the article itself, imho it's rather negative, but hey. From an user's perspective, it makes sense to only review 3 or 4 parts of KDE 4 and complain about them, and ignore all the other brilliant pieces of work in there, right? On to the responses, I found this reaction by dagw to be the most typical. Well. That's painful. So, is he right? Did we make the wrong decision? Let's look at it from a broader perspective for a while. Let's see it in the Grand Scheme of Things to Come."
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My opinion, you could have called "KDE4.0" KDE 4 Developer Release or 3.9 or KDE 4 Developer Preview
Calling it a developer release or even preview would not have been accurate either.
My guess is that the problems originate by misunderstanding KDE 4.0 as a single product, while it is more a set of three products: the KDE application platform (i.e. libraries and runtime infrastructure), the KDE desktop environment (in KDE terminology referred to as "workspace") and the KDE application suite (e.g. applications like Okular, Gwenview, KDE-Edu apps, KDE games, etc)
So while it might have been an option to use different namings for the three sections, it is my opinion that this would have lead to even more misconceptions.
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2005-07-06
> If they had released 4.0.0 as "Stable" and stuck to
> that, fair enough. What they have done is released
> it and then tried to tell people that it isn't
> stable.
we released 4.0.0 as stable and added advisory information so people would know what to and what not to expect from it. it's that simple and not particularly amazing.